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A moment of insignificance to the greater universe, but not to me. Today Puggle put together a 48 piece jigsaw puzzle unaided! And I think Bilby said “star” and pointed to it in the book.

The CofE are looking at Christian symbolism in Doctor Who as a way to seem more relevant to youngsters.

The “Iron Sky” trailer looks very interesting.

It seems that iinet are intending to buy Westnet. Meanwhile ‘coincidentally’, Internode are offering free churn to them (a saving of $39). I’m not sure if Amnet will follow suit. Maybe it’s time to change ISPs?

From the folks who brought you the Ambient Orb comes the Ambient Umbrella, whose handle glows to indicate whether you’re going to need it because rain is forecast!

Saturday morning we headed off to The Amazing Race, organised in honour of a friend’s 40th birthday. Complete with initial “Amazing Race” style running to the starting line (apparently on the real show they film it a couple of times to do the closeups!). Then it was digging around in the sandpit, throwing balls into a bucket, and off to the train station and in to the Art Gallery to do some impromptu sculpture, out to Subiaco to find the café for lunch, off to either The Roundhouse or (as we did) catch the Ferry to South Perth to construct either a waist high tower (fortunately Bilby has a low waist :), or a kite (we did both, with a low degree of success :).
After that we caught the ferry back, hunted some statuary and then caught the train back to the car. Along the way we had to collect photos of various objects, and a treasure hunt list of actual objects.
We debriefed and tallied the scores. Apparently a few innocent bystanders had asked “Where are the cameras?”. Then it was time for pizza, birthday cake and three rounds of Dark Zone laser games (for me at least). It’s hard to play with 10kg of child on your arm, especially if she’s sticking her hand over the laser, but she seemed to enjoy it. Then it was time to stagger to the car, barely able to walk.

So, I find myself buying a family ticket on Transperth, from a machine. Is it “Single”,”Concession” or “Multiple”?
Multiple people, I think, so I press Multiple. Except, the Family ticket option is disabled. Aargh!
Ok, I guess I could buy two DayRiders, except that’s twice as much!
Hmm… Back out. Select “Single”.
Ah, now I can buy a Family ticket. Because you can only buy a single one at a time, it’s under “Single”. It was also pointed out to me that it doesn’t work if you choose “Concession” either (which it could be argued that it is…).
Really they should probably mod it so that the Family option is always enabled and always produces a single family ticket, rather than forcing you to find where the ticket option is. I’m not sure if they log the user interface events on the ticket machines, but it would be interesting to see if they could make some improvements, because I’m sure they could!

If you’re an expat or just hankering for a taste of the Netherlands, check out www.dutchfood.com.au. Also some Indonesian sauces there as well.

For 4 people:
Gas - 5.79 units/day
Water - 0.75 kL/day
Electricity - 11 units/day